DrForester
Kills Photobucket
So I got a email from photobucket last week.
So I instantly think this is due to the e3 .gifs. I get off the phone today and learn that I made it into the top 5 bandwidth users of Photobucket last month. The 5th Element .gif received well over 1 million views, at 15mb a view.
All because of this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/DrForester/Retired/The5thNintendoElement.gif
So, long story short, they want my .gifs to be private, but I was able to convince them that this one went viral, getting up to #4 on reddit at one point, and twitterd all over the place.
So the solution we agreed on, is that I'm going to change the file name, thus breaking hotlinks. There are people on other boards using it in signatures and other things that just show up all the time (once again thank you GAF for not subjecting us to signatures). I will change the name tomorrow morning, so if for some reason you want to save it, do it now.
I also plan to have a bit of fun with this, and this is where I need some help from GAF. I would like a tasteful image to replace the filename with. Maybe something mentioning how the original photo broke photobucket. Small in MB size, non-animated. Something that I will upload to the file and will show up in those signatures and other things on other boards.
Remember it has to be saved in .gif format though, the file name is. "The5thNintendoElement.gif"
So I instantly think this is due to the e3 .gifs. I get off the phone today and learn that I made it into the top 5 bandwidth users of Photobucket last month. The 5th Element .gif received well over 1 million views, at 15mb a view.
All because of this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/DrForester/Retired/The5thNintendoElement.gif
So, long story short, they want my .gifs to be private, but I was able to convince them that this one went viral, getting up to #4 on reddit at one point, and twitterd all over the place.
So the solution we agreed on, is that I'm going to change the file name, thus breaking hotlinks. There are people on other boards using it in signatures and other things that just show up all the time (once again thank you GAF for not subjecting us to signatures). I will change the name tomorrow morning, so if for some reason you want to save it, do it now.
I also plan to have a bit of fun with this, and this is where I need some help from GAF. I would like a tasteful image to replace the filename with. Maybe something mentioning how the original photo broke photobucket. Small in MB size, non-animated. Something that I will upload to the file and will show up in those signatures and other things on other boards.
Remember it has to be saved in .gif format though, the file name is. "The5thNintendoElement.gif"
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